Champs Élysées Cocktail

Champs Élysées Cocktail Story

Appearing in Harry Craddock’s 1930 publication, the Savoy Cocktail Book, the Champs Élysées comes across like an herbaceous cousin to the Sidecar. The original recipe is inexplicably built like a punch for up to six people, however the ratios, when scaled down, result in a balanced single-serving cocktail. Craddock also did not specify whether to use the 80-proof yellow expression of chartreuse or the 110-proof green. Rather than stressing over historical accuracy, use chartreuse as the monks do: using a mix of both green and yellow to taste yields an even more nuanced cocktail.